news.bbc.co.uk - 7/22/2009
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A former Ukrainian general suspected of carrying out the high-profile murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze has reportedly confessed to the killing. A senior police official said Oleksiy Pukach had also implicated senior political figures in the murder. Mr Gongadze's decapitated body was found ...
google.com - 7/19/2009
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2 hours ago KIEV, Ukraine Vice President Joe
Biden is visiting Georgia and Ukraine starting Monday, meeting
leaders eager for further reassurance that Washington still supports their joining NATO and that its effort to warm relations with Russia ...
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The Associated Press: Biden to greet eager allies in ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/22/2009
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DeMint Stands By "Waterloo" Comment Against Obama: "We've
Got To Stop His Politics" Appearing this morning on
the Today show, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) refused to take back his statement that Republicans can make health care policy into President ...
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briefingroom.thehill.com - 7/21/2009
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Kiev, Ukraine has the most beautiful women in
the world, according to Joe Biden. The Vice President,
who's visiting Ukraine and Georgia this week, made that observation while chatting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. The two had just ...
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Biden: Kiev has most beautiful women
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... senior political figures in the murder. Mr Gongadze's decapitated body was found in a forest in September 2000. Three others - all former policemen - were jailed for the murder last year but Gen Pukach remained on the run until his capture on Tuesday. Mr Gongadze was an investigative journalist who had exposed high-level corruption. He was abducted in 2000 and his body was found months later. He had been beaten and strangled, his body doused in petrol and burned. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8163507.stm Slain journalist Georgiy Gongadze's widow speaks out in ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/22/2009
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... Ukraine General ‘Killed Reporter’ A former Ukrainian general suspected of carrying out the high-profile murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze has reportedly confessed to the killing. A senior police official said Oleksiy Pukach had also implicated senior political figures in the murder. Mr Gongadze’s decapitated body was found in a forest in September 2000. Three others — all former policemen — were jailed for the murder last year but Gen Pukach remained on the run until his capture on ...
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